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Originally Posted by Mustrum_Ridcully So, the clever spammer will post his spam and then, under a different account post that he already reported it. |
While that's not likely to happen, you're certainly right that it could. For example, there's a spamming method where the first account starts a thread and asks for help with something; this post contains no spam links at all. Then the second account appears and posts a reply containing a spam link that's supposed to solve the original poster's problem.
Of course, it's unlikely that a spammer would put in a similar amount of effort just to spam EN World.
Anyway, there's a way to spot a report scam. If someone who has only 1 post claims to have reported something, you should assume that's not correct. You see, a report generates a post (by the reporting user) in the Reported Posts forum and thus, 1 report + 1 post saying 'Reported' = 2 posts.
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